Kenmore Find

[countryford]

So I just purchased this dealer set from ebay. It is a brochure for every Kenmore line for that year. It has washers, dryers, combination units, wringer washers, refrigerators, stoves, air conditioner units and dehumidifiers. It is two separate books. One is more detailed and has a stand that it can be displayed. It comes in this suitcase bag. It just arrived today, so I haven't gone too into depth with it. The pictures are from the ebay listing.

 

[appnut]

Oh my goodness!!!!

 

[ea56]

The Coldspot refrigerator in photo #4 is the same one my Mom had from ‘63 to ‘75 in her home in white, its the fridge I lived with during my teen years.  It was a really nice one.

 

Eddie

 

[rp2813]

I agree with Eddie about that refrigerator.  My sister had one a couple of years older --  a 1961, I think, in pink as shown -- and it was huge.  It had a thick chrome trim strip across the top of the refrigerator door that read "C    O    L    D    S    P    O    T" in bold black lettering.  Inside, there was a full width fluorescent tube lamp at top rear of the fresh food section.  It was a special tube that would operate at low temperatures.  A standard tube would only produce a dim flicker.

 

[combo52]

Kenmore Salesman Guide

Cool find Justin, can't wait to see more pictures from this book, especially the laundry.

 

John L.

 

[countryford]

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[countryford]

I don't know why they are upside down. They weren't on my phone.

 

[ea56]

Re: Replies #2 & 3

Ralph our Coldspot fridge was a ‘61 model too.  The house was built in ‘61 and the fridge was installed when it was built.  Mom bought the house in’63 from the German man who built it.  Coincidentally, he also built another home about 1/4 mile down the road from the one we bought from him, after we moved in.  

 

Several months after Mom bought the house Albert came to visit for one reason or another and he was wearing black leather boots that came almost to his knees.  My stepfathers father recognized those boots from his time in WWII and asked Albert if he had been in the SS?  Albert proudly replied yes, and whipped out a small snapshot of himself in his full SS uniform including said boots!  Mom was shocked to say the least!  We never trusted him after that.  

 

He was on the same party line with us and 3 other neighbors, and he frequently listened in on the line.   Also he and his wife Nora were like two peas in a pod with the German consulate in San Francisco.  You just never really know who your neighbors are until after you live near them for a while.

 

Eddie

 

[countryford]

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[combo52]

WOW The 59 Lady Kenmore's

Thanks for sharing Justin, I would like to order a 59 LKM pair in yellow Suds-Saver and gas dryer and to complete the fully automatic laundry a yellow LKM combination in gas, I had never known that the combination could be ordered in an all porcelain cabinet.

 

Maybe this will inspire me to fix the white 59 LKMs we have, all though I need an all porcelain 57-60 LKM gas dryer as a donor to convert the electric one we have to gas, or if someone finds a 59 LKM gas dryer and wants to trade for a 50 amp electric dryer we can do that.

 

John L.

 

[maytag85]

Not a brochure but turquoisedude was kind enough to give me this 1962 Whirlpool repair master manual 5 months ago. Will be handy if I have to do repairs to my ‘63 Whirlpool Imperial Mark XII or a Kenmore belt drive washer of that era as well

 

[countryford]

I have one of those for my 1963 Lady Kenmore set.

 

[maytag85]

My ‘63 Whirlpool Imperial Mark XII set has the same features (on the washer at least) as the Lady Kenmore washer of that year. Kenmore may have sold in large numbers but one thing the Whirlpools had was the Surgilator agitator which seems to circulate the laundry fairly well.

 

[gansky1]

That's just beautiful, thanks for sharing it with us.